Every charge Stripe makes against your card for Gold Silver Ledger — your monthly or annual subscription, prorated upgrades, the lot — generates an invoice and a receipt.
Both are kept in your Stripe billing portal, available to view or download whenever you need them.
This is the article to come back to at tax time, when an accountant asks for proof of a business expense, or when you just want to check what you were charged in a given month.
Where to find them
The link to the billing portal lives on the Subscription tab of your Settings page.
From the left nav, click Settings.
Click the Subscription tab.
At the bottom of the Current Plan card, click Manage Billing.
That opens the Stripe billing portal in a new tab. Inside the portal, look for the Invoice history section. You'll see every charge to date, most recent first, with the date, amount, status (paid, refunded, etc.), and a download link on each row.
What's actually in an invoice
Each invoice is a self-contained record of a single charge. Typical contents:
Invoice number — Stripe's reference for that specific charge.
Date issued and date paid — usually the same day, give or take a few minutes.
The plan you were charged for — Starter, Pro, or Premium, with the billing interval (monthly or annual).
The amount — in your billing currency, with any applicable tax shown separately.
Line items for prorations — if the charge covered a mid-cycle upgrade, you'll see separate lines for the prorated credit on the old plan and the prorated debit on the new one. Together they net to the proration amount that hit your card.
Payment method — the last four digits of the card that was charged.
Your name and address on the Stripe customer record — whatever you entered at Checkout. This is the field your accountant or bookkeeper will care about for a business expense.
Downloading as PDF
Each invoice in the list has a download icon — click it to save the invoice as a PDF.
A few practical uses:
Accounting and bookkeeping. PDF invoices are the standard format for expense tracking software (Xero, QuickBooks, Wave, and so on) — most let you attach a PDF directly to a reconciled expense.
Tax preparation. If your accountant treats Gold Silver Ledger as a deductible expense (recordkeeping for an investment activity, for instance — check with them about your specific situation), the invoices are the evidence.
Personal records. If you'd rather not rely on cloud storage to keep your billing history, downloading a copy to your own drive is fine. Stripe keeps their copy regardless.
You can bulk-download by clicking each one, or just grab the ones you need for whatever you're reconciling.
Receipts arrive by email automatically
Stripe also emails a receipt for each charge at the time it happens. The receipt goes to the email address on your Gold Silver Ledger account — the same one you sign in with — and lands in your inbox within a minute or two of the charge.
If you keep your billing records in your email inbox by filtering and tagging messages, this is the path of least friction. Just search your inbox for "Gold Silver Ledger" or "Stripe" and you'll find the receipts.
If you've recently changed your account email, future receipts will go to the new address; past receipts already sent stay where they landed.
Receipts vs invoices, briefly
For practical purposes, the two are the same document — proof that a charge was made and paid. Stripe uses the word "invoice" inside the billing portal and "receipt" in the email subject line, but they refer to the same underlying record.
If you specifically need a document marked as a "tax invoice" for accounting reasons in your country, the PDF from the billing portal is the format auditors typically accept. The exact tax-document requirements vary by jurisdiction; if you're not sure, ask your accountant.
What happens to invoices if you cancel or delete your account
This one comes up often enough to be worth a paragraph: your invoices live with Stripe, not with us. Even if you cancel your subscription or delete your Gold Silver Ledger account entirely, the historical invoices on the Stripe side are unaffected — they're evidence of payments that actually happened.
If you anticipate needing your invoices after you've gone, the safer move is to download what you need before you delete.
Once your account on our end is gone, the Manage Billing link in the app is too, so reaching the portal in the same one-click way isn't possible. (Stripe's own customer portal is reachable separately, but it's a less direct path.)
Where to go next
Updating your payment method: The other thing the Manage Billing button is for.
[My payment failed — what now?]: For past-due charges, where an invoice may be marked unpaid and need a retry.
Upgrading your subscription: for the explanation of those prorated line items you'll see on the invoice that followed an upgrade.
[Cancelling your subscription]: If you're winding things down and want to grab your invoice history first.
Deleting your account: Specifically, the note about Stripe-side records staying intact.